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Baby born on Metro platform | News
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Thursday morning, Metro Transit Police tweeted the following: "A baby was just delivered ON THE PLATFORM at L'Enfant Plaza. MTPD on scene. Additional details will follow."
UPDATE: The mother and baby left the hospital Saturday.
The mother has been identified as Shavonnte Taylor, 23. Her son is named Amir Mason. He weighs 8 pounds and 5 ounces. Both the mother and baby are doing fine, according to transit police.
A spokesperson for George Washington University Hospital released the following statement on Friday:
"While Ms. Taylor will be
discharged on Saturday, her baby may spend a few additional days at the hospital for follow-up care... Some of the testing we are doing includes
monitoring breathing, oxygen saturation in the blood, and heart
rate levels to assure stability and wellbeing of the baby. Amir
suffered from respiratory distress shortly after birth and we had to start
him on bubble nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). He is
doing well now and we weaned him to room air on Friday
morning. We also had to do a Complete Blood Count
(CBC), blood culture and we started Amir on antibiotics for a
possible infection. We anticipate Amir will be discharged in a few days."
A Metro spokesperson says that at 10:30 a.m. a 23-year-old woman riding on the Green Line train headed toward Greenbelt, Md. went into labor. The spokesperson says that an off-duty EMT was onboard the train with the woman and when the train stopped at L'Enfant Plaza they both got off the train. The station manager was alerted, says the spokesperson. Our crew at the scene was told the station manager heard the woman screaming and called paramedics.
According to the spokesperson, the baby started coming and the off-duty EMT helped deliver the baby boy on the upper platform at approximately 10:45 a.m., says the spokesperson.
DC Fire and EMS took over and the mother and child were transported to George Washington Hospital, according to the Metro spokesperson.
In the meantime, we wanted to have a little fun. We're asking people for their #MetroBabyName ideas. Follow us at @wusa9 and share your suggestions. Among some of the names so far: Rosslyn, Dunn Loring, Brookland and Pierre (in honor of the L'Enfant Plaza's namesake.)


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The pit "Santa Barbara" is part of the mine of San Giorgio (zinc), cultivated since ancient times. Built in 1870 in form of a medieval castel (as tribute to the nearby ancient town of Iglesias), it contained a large steam machine that moved the mine cage down and up the shaft. The mine stopped all activities in the forties of XX century. The pit was sealed with concrete, the heavy machinery was scrapped. The spectacular "castle" is now in ruins but still charming and is visible from many kilometers. It is also called "Sa Macchina Beccia" ("the old machine", in sardinian language).
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). The area of Sardinia is 24,090 square kilometres (9,301 sq mi). The island is surrounded (clockwise from north) by the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands. Sardinia is a constitutional part of Italy, with a special statute of regional autonomy under the Italian Constitution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia

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Futuristic Punk Red-Sea Creatures, Morphology A, Coral
Edition: Limited Edition
Year of design: 2016
At the basis of this project, was a desire to preserve the value and quality of hand worked ceramics, in a manner which is more efficient within the manufacturing process. This is achieved by reversing the traditional order of the industrial manufacturing line – and shifting the manual work from the decoration stage - one before last in the chain of production - to the mold creating stage - the first in the chain of production.
In contrast with the conventional method of creating plaster molds which is based on a predetermined model, in this series, the molds were processed by hand spontaneously, using different drills especially designed for carving cavities in plaster. The combination of different drills and spontaneous free form work of the drilling processes creates a series of wares that share a common aesthetic born from the making process.
Each mold created is a limited edition, valid through the mold's life span, and so – when the mold wears out, the series ends.
The development and work in negative was inspired by the concrete pieces of the ceramicist designer Gdula Ogen, Ran's grandmother, who worked for many years in negative sculpting with sand box molds and concrete casts.
Futuristic Punk Red Sea Creatures was commissioned by Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center for "Matter of Fact" curated by Johnathan Hopp and Maya Ben David.
The series includes different morphologies each one signed and numbered.
Material: Slip cast ceramics, underglaze and clear glaze
Size in cm (approximate sizes): 9.5W X 7.5D X 13.5H
Product type: Slip casted ceramics with coral/red/rust/plum colored underglaze and clear glaze
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John Paul II International Film Festival Set for Miami
'Mystery of Love' Goes to the Movies
MIAMI — Pope John Paul II wrote his "Letter to Artists" in 1999 to encourage Catholic participation in the arts. One group of Miami filmmakers not only took him literally — they also named their film festival after him.
The John Paul II International Film Festival, which will be held Feb. 17-26 in Miami, is the brainchild of 7eventh Day Media, Inc., made up of husband-and-wife team filmmaker Frank William Brennan and actress Laura Alvarado, along with social worker Rafael Anrrich.
"At first, we planned to do something extremely local and purely Catholic," said Alvarado, co-director of the 2011 festival. "Yet, with a name like John Paul II, we knew it couldn't be strictly Catholic and we couldn't host it in some parish hall. To reflect John Paul II's pontificate and his teaching, we needed to get out of the parish and into the community."
The inaugural festival took place in Miami in 2009. The 10-day event featured 29 films. It attracted more than 2,100 attendees from across the U.S., Europe and Latin America and drew support from universities and a Jewish community center in Miami.
The organizers said the initial festival was a success.
"People were leaving the theater radiating with a passion for John Paul II's teachings, a newer understanding about what our faith teaches and how much we have in common with those of other faiths," said Alvarado. "We're all human and in need of love, dignity and forgiveness."
Sister Helena Burns, a film school attendee and religious sister with the Daughters of St. Paul, an order devoted to spreading the Gospel using the media, was one of the attendees.
"The Church needs to be doing so much more to support films," said Sister Helena. "Festivals like this are a great way for little films to get distribution. They raise awareness, give audiences and filmmakers an opportunity to talk, and allow the film industry to further itself."
On a practical level, one of the goals of the organizers is to take films that might otherwise get overlooked and give them an audience. In the film industry, the exposure that a movie gains from film festivals can be enough to catapult it onto the big screen.
For example, winning the Toronto International Film Festival's "People's Choice Award" in September 2006 eventually led to the film Bella obtaining a distributor for its 2007 release.
Something similar has already happened with the John Paul II Festival. The festival's 2009 opening and closing films both went on to bigger developments: The opening film, The Mighty Macs — about the true story of tiny Immaculata College winning the first national championship in women's basketball — gained a distributor and will open in theaters on April 1. The closing film, The Human Experience, had limited distribution. After a Harkins Theaters' representative saw the movie, it opened on a handful of screens in Harkins Theaters in the Southwest last year. Dollar for dollar, the film ended up ranking eighth in the country on opening weekend.
And festival moviegoers were excited about the film too. "We brought The Human Experience to the John Paul II Festival," said Joe Campo, the film's executive producer. The film was nominated for the People's Festival Award and Reel Rose Award for Best Feature and, according to Alvarado, received a fervent welcome by the Miami community.
In 2010, Alvarado and Brennan took a hiatus from the festival to get married.
The 2011 official selection is a "bold" lineup, according to Alvarado.
2011 Festival
The theme for this year's festival is "The Mystery of Love." Twenty-eight films will explore that topic at four different locations throughout Miami, including the Coral Gables Arts Cinema, two locations at Florida International University and a theater at the David and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center.
The selection includes documentaries on religious life, family movies, films about saints, and a movie about the very person whom the festival is named after.
This festival opens with Out of the Darkness, a documentary about Shelley Lubben, who left the pornography industry for a life in Christ, and ends with Nine Days That Changed the World, Newt and Callista Gingrich's documentary on Pope John Paul II's historic trip to Poland and the resulting collapse of communism.
Alvarado expects that approximately 80% of the filmmakers will be in attendance, as well as some of the films' actors.
While the festival is unable to give monetary awards, it will present awards for best documentary, live action and short, as well as the "People's Festival Award" — chosen by the audience — and "The Mystery of Love Award" for the film that best represents the year's theme.
"The films live off honors," said Alvarado. "When they can put the laurels on their trailers, that's a big deal for them."
Festivals like this one also provide an opportunity for filmmakers and filmgoers to meet.
Bill Harvelle, a lay Catholic campus minister at Florida International University, participated as a panelist during the 2009 festival, and he is doing so again this year for five of the festival's films.
"The value is that a festival brings together people in the Spirit, who see films not just as Christ versus culture, but who find Christ within culture," said Harvelle, who created a "Faith and Film" program at Florida International University. "Films can be used to help Catholic Christians better understand sacramentality — that God can meet us in art."
"In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art," wrote Pope John Paul II in his 1999 "Letter to Artists." "Art must make perceptible and, as far as possible, attractive, the world of the Spirit, of the invisible, of God."
"We need more film festivals of this genre, because of the state of what's going on in the world," said Campo. "Hopefully, this is just the beginning."
Register senior writer Tim Drake is based in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
2011 Official Selection
Out of the Darkness
Documentary on Shelley Lubben's journey from the pornography industry to a life in Christ and the redemptive power of love.
Corbin Bernsen plays James Moore, a former pastor who comes to the aid of a childhood friend who is accused of a crime he doesn't believe he committed.
No Greater Love
British filmmaker Michael Whyte's documentary goes inside the Carmelite monastery of Most Holy Trinity in West London.
Mississippi Queen
Follows Paige Williams' cross-country journey as she explores the distance between her upbringing and her current lifestyle.
Ramona & Beezus
Based on Beverly Cleary's book, young Ramona Quimby helps her family face its biggest challenge.
The Holy Roller
A struggling preacher is tricked into starting a church in a night club by its unscrupulous owner.
St. Bernadette of Lourdes
A film about the Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, in 1858, retold through the talents of children.
Life Happens
Director Ash Greyson explores the topic of abortion through the eyes of those who were nearly aborted.
Strong Bodies Fight
The story of the University of Notre Dame boxing team's annual intramural charitable "Bengal Bouts" to fight poverty.
The Power of Friendship
A fictionalized documentary about the friendship between two 13-year-old girls, one Polish and one Jewish, during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II.
The Last Summit
The film examines the profound impact that a good priest can have through the story of Father Pablo.
The Calling
A documentary that reveals the joys and anxieties of those who are drawn to religious life.
A film following those who take pilgrimages to Lourdes seeking healing.
Nine Days That Changed the World
Newt and Callista Gingrich's documentary that demonstrates how Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland in June 1979 led to the creation of the Solidarity movement and the downfall of communism.


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Saturday, June 11, 2005
As the resident Thinking Minority member in Florida, you all (you and John or you and Margaret) were supposed to call me so I could meet you all in Orlando - you have upset the Florida contingent of the Thinking Minority. In any event, it is Hurricane Season (the caps are deserved) and you should expect rain anytime, not to mention at 3pm every day. I hope you all enjoyed your conference. Since this is the closest you all would ever come to visiting me in Jacksonville, I am glad you all had a good time visiting me. Enjoy the rain!
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Dec. 13, 2010 — Increasing taxes on sweetened drinks, such as soda, could lead to modest weight loss at best, particularly among middle-income families, and could generate between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion in annual revenue, according to a study.
Researchers led by Eric Finkelstein, PhD, associate professor of health services at Duke University Medical Center-National University of Singapore, found that a 20% tax on sugary drinks would result in weight loss of about 0.7 pounds per person over the course of a year and generate approximately $1.5 billion in tax revenue; a 40% hike in would lead to an average weight loss of 1.3 pounds per person per year and result in $2.5 billion in tax revenue, and cost the average household about $28 per year.
The findings, based on 2006 data and published in the Dec. 13/27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, support the argument for increasing the taxes of sugar-sweetened drinks as a means to help curb the obesity epidemic. The study was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
"Although small, given the rising trend in obesity rates, especially among youth, any strategy that shows even modest weight loss should be considered," Finkelstein says in a prepared statement. "Extending the tax to restaurants and vending machines would generate more tax revenue and perhaps greater weight losses."
Lower and Upper Income Families Less Affected
Although Finkelstein and his team found a so-called "soda tax" could lead to modest weight loss, their analysis showed that middle-income households were the most likely to feel the impact of the soda tax and to experience weight loss, whereas lower- and higher-income households would probably not experience as much weight loss. The findings are limited by the fact that the analysis only included beverages purchased in stores.
"Higher-income groups can afford to pay the tax so they are unaffected, and lower-income groups likely avoid the effects of the tax by purchasing generic versions, waiting for sales, buying in bulk, or by other cost-saving strategies," Finkelstein said. Moreover, "If they switch to other high-calorie drinks, the effects of the tax would be diluted."
Finkelstein and his team looked at a database of U.S. households that included information about the families' food and beverage purchases over a one-year period. The database also included information about household demographics, as well as the brand, UPC codes, and calories (though not a breakdown of the nutritional content) of the groceries they bought. These store-bought purchases included sugary drinks, such as carbonated sodas and sports/energy drinks, and also fruit juice, skim milk, and whole milk.
Households were broken into four categories ranging from low- to high-income. Investigators used statistical techniques to calculate how any changes in the cost of sweetened drinks would affect household purchasing habits.
Finkelstein noted that subsidies supporting the production of corn — the main ingredient in high-fructose corn syrup found in many sweetened drinks — could also affect sweetened beverage consumption. "Removing the subsidies or implementing a tax that increases prices on products that contain this ingredient is justifiable," he says.
According to the CDC, two-thirds of the U.S. population is overweight or obese. Obesity is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some types of cancer. The authors note that obesity costs the U.S. an estimated $147 billion per year.


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Consumers are more likely to change their behavior if they voluntarily commit to changing rather than being told what to do, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. So carefully nudge them along if you're trying to encourage more eco-friendly behavior.
"Commitment promotes consistent changes in behavior, especially if consumers pledge specific steps to promote the desired behavior. Consumers who publicly express a commitment to the environment will reinforce their commitment and increase sustainable behavior," write authors Katie Baca-Motes, Amber Brown (both Disney Research), Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth A. Keenan (both University of California, San Diego), and Leif D. Nelson (University of California, Berkeley).
Influencing sustainable behavior is an ongoing challenge in today's world. Hotels often ask consumers to "do their part" for the environment by reusing towels, but this approach has limited success. Appeals to adhere to social norms (i.e., informing guests that the majority of guests in a hotel reuse their towels) have been shown to be more effective, yet leave an estimated 50% of hotel patrons unresponsive.
The authors studied consumers staying at a California hotel. At check-in, guests were asked to either make a general commitment to be environmentally friendly or to make a specific commitment to reuse towels during their stay. Notably, the commitment was entirely symbolic—once guests checked in, they were able to exist in anonymity and behave as they wished. To reinforce the commitment, some guests who chose to commit further received a "Friend of the Earth" lapel pin.
Asking guests to make a specific commitment to hang towels made them more likely to hang their towels. However, when they made a specific commitment to practice sustainable behavior and received a pin to symbolize that commitment, their subsequent behavior was significantly more eco-friendly. They were more likely to reuse towels as well as turn off the lights when they left their rooms.
"Rather than telling consumers what they should be doing, companies, nonprofits, or government agencies wishing to influence behavior change should consider an alternative option—one that creates an appealing opportunity for consumers to start with a small step—a non-binding commitment that will likely nudge their behavior in the desired direction," the authors conclude.
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It's bike shorts time again. The monthly (or two) short film festival about bikes is coming to the Bowery Stadium in Manhattan.
8pm Sunday, July 17th BOWERY STADIUM source-www.highsnobiety.com 276 Bowery (btwn Houston St & Prince St.)-Manhattan
See the website, for more info and lots of great videos from bikeshorts past.


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Let me start by saying this: were I the supreme commander of the United States with absolute control, the Romney tax plan would not be the final product. I have been and will always be a fan of a pure, simple flat tax where anyone can file with anyone else and the government cannot punish or reward you for how you choose to live your life.
Preface #2: I am a licensed tax professional with experience in preparing thousands of personal, corporate, state and some types of international tax returns, so I do have a little bit of street cred on this issue.
All that being said, I love Mitt Romney's tax plan. First, it is not wimpy. It is not RINO, status quo policy. The Romney tax plan will be easy to run against for someone like Obama, who is willfully choosing to run as dishonest a campaign as he possibly can. It has necessary trade offs and it destroys the leverage of special interest groups. It makes it so that billionaires can no longer zero out their tax returns. It will be a small tax hike for people like Mitt Romney, who can sit back and collect carrying interest and dividends and live comfortably on that income. It will be a tax break for the middle class.
The best thing about the Romney tax plan is that it ends the power of special interest groups that is built into the tax code. Currently, people and corporations are punished and rewarded by the tax system for certain behaviors. For example: if you go to school, you are rewarded. If you rent your home, you are punished. If you put all your money in interest-free muni bonds, you are rewarded. If you sell your capital assets with less than a year holding period, you are punished. While there is still uncertainty as to which credits, deductions and loopholes Romney would eliminate, the key is that he will be eliminating many and trading them for a 20% tax cut across the board.
That brings me to the second best thing about his plan: it means a simpler tax return. Just when you thought it was impossible enough to do your own taxes, with Obama's plan, now you will have to record your health insurance on your tax return, and if you make a certain amount you will have 3.8% in extra taxes on investment income and .9% extra on wages. Have fun with those IRS schedules, and don't screw it up or they'll catch you two years from now plus interest and penalties.
The Romney plan will eliminate pages of schedules and forms from your tax return and trade them for a simple across the board rate reduction.
If Democrats knew enough about the tax code to understand what this plan does, they would support it too. Instead of lobbing an extra 4.7% tax increase at taxpayers (including small business owners) who make $200,000, plus an additional 3-4.6% if Obama has his way with the Bush tax cuts, the Romney plan eliminates the tricks that the mega rich use to cut their tax rates below 15%. It is a targeted change to the tax system, not a hatchet rate increase that harms employers.
If Romney is raising taxes on the super-rich who shelter their income, won't that hurt growth? No, and especially not compared to Obama's plan. Obama's plan is to increase the dividend rate to the income tax rate. That's a tax hike of up to 19.6 percentage points. Obama plans to hike capital gains taxes by 5 percentage points. Romney would leave those taxes as is for the wealthy and eliminate them for people who make less than $200,000. In other words, if you are middle class you will be able to invest money without paying 15% off the top to the government. That will change the risk reward ratios for millions of middle class investors and shift capital ownership while encouraging saving among the middle class and not discouraging investment among the rich.
Then there are the tax cuts for businesses to make the US more competitive with other countries. Also, by switching to a territorial tax system, Romney let's multinational companies invest in American growth without being penalized and removes the incentive to keep investments off-shore. This will allow companies to bring overseas profits back to the United States to build headquarters, offices, and manufacturing plants here instead of keeping it in other countries to avoid a US tax hit. Then the income from this new American growth will contribute to American tax revenues going forward. With the current system, we tax multinational companies if they want to invest dollars in the US, even if they have already paid foreign taxes on those dollars.
Romney will have some difficulty with certain groups. For example, if he takes away the $250 deduction for teachers buying teaching supplies in exchange for a 20% tax cut, you can bet there will be ads run with poor children holding out their empty backpacks and a subtext about how they used to have school books but Romney took them away. If Romney touches the mortgage interest deduction in exchange for a 20% tax break, you can bet the National Association of Realtors will be running ads with homeless people talking about how Romney took their opportunity at home ownership away. Those special interest groups will hang on tough. Democrat city mayors who would normally decry the rich for sheltering their income will suddenly discover that tax free interest on municipal bonds is the only thing keeping society from turning into some sort of post-apocalyptic jungle. Never mind that middle class families will pay less in taxes under the Romney plan; threaten to take away their mortgage interest deduction and most do not know enough to be OK with that.
Then there is the valid argument that the rich already pay their fair share of taxes. But the Romney tax plan doesn't target the rich who invest their money in American businesses like Obama's plan does; it targets the rich who get high life insurance payouts tax-free, who shelter their money in tax-free municipal bond interest, who invest in oil and gas wells to shelter income through high amortization expenses, and so on. Won't that hurt investment in oil and gas, you may ask? Not with Romney as President instead of Obama, because he will open up the avenues for exploration to the point where major companies can hire and get involved. Then average citizens like you and I will have more opportunity to invest in companies that buy and develop oil fields. And on top of that, we won't have to pay taxes on our dividends and capital gains from those investments.
I'll be honest: I liked the Bush tax cuts, but I didn't love them. They made some things more complex and left much of the rest of it at the same complexity. Meanwhile, they cut taxes across the board. I applauded their passage and re-passage under Obama, but they didn't fundamentally change our tax code from the garbled, complicated special interest buffet that it is right now. I hated Herman Cain's plan; it would have been a more complicated mess than what we have now, and would have been a huge tax hike on the poor and middle class. I've written extensively about it here at Whitehouse12.com.
I love Mitt Romney's tax plan, and I never imagined that I would. Additionally, he hired the right guy, Paul Ryan, to explain it, because it will be much easier to distort his plan for political gain than to spell it out in a way that people can understand. To be sure, it is an over-all tax cut. There is no denying that. However, if it inspires growth as it is designed to, the revenue increase will make up the difference and keep it revenue neutral as promised. Even the Tax Policy Center, which originally claimed Romney would hike taxes on 95% of Americans, has come clean and admitted his plan is viable.
In my mind, no tax plan will be perfect until it is flat and cuts spending by at least $2 trillion. But this is the next best thing.
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There are now quite a few Java options for Raspbian so I thought I'd summarise them to help the confused newcomers decide which VM is for them.
Oracle JDK7
Pros: fast, full-featured
Cons: non-FOSS, free to use for "desktop"/"server" use but requires separate licensing for embedded use.
Notes: included by default in recent versions of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Raspbian image.
Package name: oracle-java7-jdk (note: package is in Raspberry Pi Foundation repo, not the Raspbian repo)
Pros: full-featured, FOSS
Cons: slow
Notes: default VM in Raspbian OpenJDK packages.
Package name for OpenJDK7: openjdk-7-jre
Package name for OpenJDK6: openjdk-6-jre
Pros: faster than Zero, free, seems mature, FOSS
Cons: slower in my test than Avian and Oracle. Lacks support for agents
Package name for OpenJDK7: icedtea-7-jre-jamvm
Package name for OpenJDK6: icedtea-7-jre-jamvm
Pros: faster than JamVM in my test, FOSS.
Cons: seems very new, not available for openjdk-6, didn't seem to be as fast as Oracle VM in my test.
Package name for OpenJDK7: jvm-7-avian-jre
JDK 8 (with JavaFX) for ARM Early Access
Pros: seems to be the fastest option, supplied class libraries include accelerated JavaFX implementation.
Cons: proprietary, doesn't appear to be re-distributable, still pre-release, supplied class libraries are JDK8-based and don't include AWT/Swing (though apparently the Oracle embedded VM can be used with the class libraries from Raspbian OpenJDK to get AWT/Swing support).
Forum thread: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 81&t=26110
The default VM for OpenJDK7 on Raspbian can be changed by editing /etc/java-7-openjdk/jvm-armhf.cfg. Presumably a similar config file exists for OpenJDK6 but I haven't checked myself.
edit: incorporated some of hendrik's fixes
edit2: add package name for avian, pointed out as missing by xranby
edit3: add mention of oracle java 7 packages.


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Another great one from the JBL legacy is gone from our midst.
He will be missed by many!
Another great one from the JBL legacy is gone from our midst.
He will be missed by many!
JBL Pro for home use!
I first knew of John Eargle when I read his biographical information on James Lansing in a mid 70's JBL brochure and its later more complete version here at LH. It was plainly evident how John embraced ever changing technology yet held the past and its history with great respect. He was a man with perspective and, from his body of work, a professional with passion in every sense of the word.
I had hoped to meet him personally some day in the near future as I have been trying to arrange a visit to the old JBL plant before Northridge. Sadly, that personal meeting will have to be set aside.
Perhaps we can find solace in the thought of John playing piano in front of Jim Lansing, William Thomas, and Bart Locanthi, then all of them getting together to figure out how to build a better driver/speaker to reproduce it for the angels to hear.
Rest in Peace, our JBL's will play on.
When faced with another JBL find, Good mech986 says , JBL Fan mech986 says
I was being taken on a tour of the JBL factory when John Eargle passed by us and greeted the JBL folks I was with. Can't really say that I "met" him on that noisy factory floor, but I did see him in the flesh.
I was struck by the high regard, and great affection that my guides showed for him as they excitedly exchanged John Eargle anecdotes:
How they could depend on his sure and knowledgable help when they were overwhelmed by complex and competing speaker design/production priorities.
And how when one of them was upstaged while giving a presentation in Japan when impatient fans rushed "Eargle-San" asking for his autograph on their treasured copies of his audio books.
They were clearly delighted to see him and recount the good times they had with him, calling him "OUR John Eargle".
His loss will be acutely felt across the factory, and across continents.
"Make it sound like dinosaurs eating cars"
- Nick Lowe, while producing Elvis Costello
I'm very sorry to hear of this sad news. Mr. Eargle will be missed dearly by the members of this website, as well as his fans in Japan, as his books, translated into Japanese, have just been introduced in the bookstores here.
Steve K
I first read a John Eargle White Paper some 30 years ago. Very detailed and informative.
One of the greats in audio history.
Very sad news.
John Eargles' passing is that one of the giants in our industry has begun his final chapter . Earl K
He will truely be missed by all.
sad for us down here, but i hope he is enjoying some tunes with some old friends....
Thanks John for posting the link
I say thank you John Eargle. You have brought much happiness to this Earth. I know you have earned your eternal rest. God bless you dear sir.
I did not know John. I can sense from his continued involvement in his work so late in life that he enjoyed it, was very well respected in the profession, and contributed richly. What a fine way to invest your precious time on earth, John!
Here he is in 1979 High Fidelity with an apt caption, indeed...
The horn lens is tilted; it woulda never passed QC in my day.
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On hiatus from his Midwestern barnstorming tour, blues percussionist Taj Gibson will return to the Bulls' starting rotation for at least one game, but perhaps three or four while Carlos Boozer heals (and adds fuel to the Derrick Rose for MVP debate). Considering shizz is real now that we're closer to the playoffs, Gibson's per36 has been 14/7 this month (10/7/ in 27 mpg in 18 games as a starter this season), I'd say he's as solid of an add as anyone owned in fewer than 35 percent of fantasy leagues. He won't win your league for you single-handedly, but then again no one will. We're entering the playoffs. Time to scrape. No small parts, just small forwards. Or power forwards. Or whatever. Every game, every point, every advantage. Tool up this weekend, folks. Let's do this!
Here's a few to grow on as we close out fantasy basketball's week 20:
Kendrick Perkins – May play tonight. Then again, there's always the chance he may not. Give it 60-40 odds that he plays. Give it 99-1 odds that, either way, he'll look like someone called him "Jerkins" one too many times. Anyway, if he's available, pick him up. If you've been stashing him, I'd recommend doing so for at least one more game.
Kevin Love – Giving chinstrap beards a good name (for once!), the Wolves all-star said he's definitely playing tonight. Love is real and not stay away.
Amar'e Stoudemire – 36/7, but also earned his 16th technical foul. If it sticks (and it shouldn't) he'll be out Sunday against the Pacers, which sucks because it's the Pacers and if there's a softer big in the Eastern Conference than STAT it's Roy Hibbert. Anyway, pay attention tomorrow to see if the league rescinds the T.
Shawn Marion – Returned and looked wicked healthy, for my Boston peeps and hella healthy for my Cali bros. Averaged 13.3/7.6 in February, so far in March, he's averaging 10.2/8.8. I only point that out because it's late and I needed something to help me get to sleep.
Tyson Chandler – Was on fire with 9/8 and three blocks in his first 17 minutes on the court. Unfortunately, the five fouls he accumulated made it so they were the only 17 minutes he played. Dem's the breaks.
Rodrigue Beaubois – 14/6, with a pair of threes in over 20 minutes. I'm just gonna set that there. Set it right there and put a doily underneath it. Maybe play some light jazz in a nearby room. Splash some soft light on it. No, the soft light is too much. We'll stop at the jazz.
Gary Forbes – Regional Sales Manager Gary Forbes started in place of Arron Afflalo and went 1-for-5 with five points. Of the Western Conference's nerdy Garys (Forbes and Neal) this is the wrong nerdy Gary to own.
Ty Lawson – Ended with 20 points, four steals and 11 assists. In the last eight games, he's had six-or-more assists in all but two games. Raymond Felton … has not.
Marcin Gortat – 14/18/4, with three steals and two blocks in 30 minutes on a dying Suns squadron. He's averaging 15/12 in five games this month and should be owned in even the shallowest of leagues. Like the kind that won't let you compete unless your face is symmetrical and you drive an Infiniti.
Kobe Bryant – Missed seven shots in a row in the middle of this game. "See!?!" You shut your mouth, Danny Granger. I've had enough of you. He ended up shooting .381, making that five games in his last six he shot under .444 from the field. "No, seriously. High five, Kobe! It happens to the best of us." Danny, you go sit over there in the corner. I can't even look at you right now.
Andrew Bynum – Grabbed one rebound in the first half. He grabbed 11 in the second. He's his own Goofus and Gallant. (Don't act like you don't remember Goofus and Gallant! Did you never go to the dentist's office?)
Ron Artest – 9/9 for Ron/Ron. Had six assists and about 19 steals (or three). This is just the fifth blurb Artest has had this year. That's all you need to know about his value.
Mike Miller – For just the second time this season, Miller reaches each of the following levels: 12/7 with a pair of threes. Yes, Mike Miller, do that. You have 17 more games, go!


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Nunemaker, John M. (1848-1942)
John M. Nunemaker: pioneer and minister, was born 1 May 1848 near Goshen, Indiana, the oldest child (of four boys) of Thomas Nunemaker (7 May 1827-10 March 1901) and Catherine Means Nunemaker (30 January 1816-4 August 1878). He lived near Goshen with his parents until he was nineteen years of age, and then moved to Sterling, Illinois in July 1867. He married Hannah Nice (11 August 1848-11 August 1908), the daughter of Bishop Henry and Lovina Nice, on 25 December 1870 at Morrison, Illinois. They had eleven children. Fifteen years after Hannah's death he married Anna Kornhaus Miller (1850-22 December 1923) on 22 January 1923. John died 29 August 1942 in La Junta, Colorado. He outlived all but four of his children.
John had a conversion experience in 1875 and was baptized in September 1875 by his father-in-law. In March 1878, John and Hannah, with their four children, moved to Roseland, Nebraska, where they resided for 25, during which time there were born seven more children, and two boys (John and George) died. John was ordained to the ministry by Bishop Albrecht Shiffler on 25 February 1894, and served as one of the ministers in the Roseland Mennonite church until he left for La Junta, Colorado.
In 1902 John Nunemaker and William Snyder of Neutral, Kansas, made a trip to Colorado in hopes of finding a suitable location for a Mennonite settlement. They traveled by train, where they stopped at La Junta. They looked over the Arkansas Valley, especially the Holbrook area 11 miles (18 km.) north of La Junta. They also explored the San Luis Valley, a farming valley approximately 200 miles (320 km.) southwest of La Junta, which they explored on rented bicycles. They concluded the Holbrook Valley would be the best site for a Mennonite settlement. A second trip to Colorado confirmed this choice. On 17 February 1903 John and Hannah Nunemaker and their large family arrived in La Junta, Colorado, and settled approximately 13 miles (21 km.) northeast of La Junta on a farm southeast of the small town of Cheraw, Colorado.
When the La Junta Mennonite Church organized in 1903, John and Hannah were among the 20 charter members. Later, when the congregation divided and the East Holbrook Mennonite Church organized, John made his church home there and faithfully filled his place, both as a member and as one of the ministers. On his 90th birthday he, as well as the congregation, received considerable satisfaction from his preaching three times.
Soon after his arrival in La Junta, John Nunemaker was an active leader in the movement to build the Mennonite Sanitarium and served as chairman of the Board for a number of years (1906-1920). He was an important pioneer in the settlement of the La Junta area by the Mennonite community.
Erb, Allen H. "Nunemaker, John M." Gospel Herald 35 (17 September 1942). Reproduced in MennObits. "Gospel Herald Obituaries September, 1942." Web. 24 September 2010. http://www.mcusa-archives.org/MennObits/42/sep1942.html.
"John H. Nunemaker." SAGA (Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association) Genealogical Website. Web. 24 September 2010. http://www.saga-omii.org/ (requires membership).
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|February 2007
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AppSecEU 2011 chapters workshop agenda
As part of AppSecEU2011 On June 9, 14h40-17h20 we organize a chapter leader workshop for all the chapter leaders that attend the conference.
Items that need discussion are:
- How to improve the current Chapter Leader Handbook?
- How to start new chapters within Europe?
- How to support inactive chapters within Europe?
- What Governance model is required for OWASP chapters?
- How can the global chapters committee facilitate the European chapters?
- ...
Proposed agenda (open for discussion):
|Trinity College - Arts Building room 3126
|14:40 - 14:55
|Welcome and roundtable
|14:55 - 15:25
| Handling chapter finances
Introduction & moderation: Seba, Participation: All
Current chapter handbook section to be elaborated.
|15:25 - 15:40
|Coffee Break
|15:40 - 16:25
| Top 10 advice for new and veteran chapter leaders
Introduction & moderation: Seba, Participation: All
Create list upfront and add action, impact and required support from the chapters committee.
|16:25 - 16:35
|16:35 - 17:20
| How to cross-pollinate success between EU chapters?
Introduction & moderation: Seba, Participation: All
Look for good pollinator mechanisms and define 7 goals to be accomplished by AppSecEU 2012 in Greece
If you plan to attend, please fill in your name and chapter below:
- Tom Brennan, New York / New Jersey chapter
- Seba Deleersnyder, Belgium chapter
- Fabio Cerullo, Ireland chapter
- Justin Clarke, London chapter
- Sebastien Gioria, France chapter - Only 9th June
- Ferdinand Vroom, Netherlands chapter
- Ofer Maor, Israel chapter
- Antonio Fontes, Geneva chapter (Western Switzerland)
- Boris Hemkemeier, German chapter
- Marco Morana, Cincinnati U.S.A. chapter
- Sven Vetsch, Switzerland chapter
- Konstantinos Papapanagiotou, Greek chapter
- Lieven Desmet, Belgium chapter - tentative
- Rory McCune, Scotland chapter
- Marian Ventuneac, Ireland Limerick chapter
- Sarah Baso, Global Chapters Committee Administrator
- Wojciech Dworakowski, Poland Chapter
- Adrian Winckles, (possible Cambridge Chapter)
- Dan Cornell (San Antonio Chapter)
- Martin Knobloch (Netherlands Chapter)
- Jøran Lillesand (Norway Chapter)
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Remote participation
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Last evening, was quite an adventure and I can't recall the last time I had an unusual night out. I didn't go out for an old faithful drink but for the new batman movie (Damn CK for not having me seen it sooner). So the movie finally happened because god willed it I tell you. (He knew how badly I wanted to see Heath Ledger.) I must say the movie was pretty damn good.
I had finished work early and went to another office in the city and I just couldn't forget the weird looks I got from techies who looked at me like I was some small sized girl selling cookies or something. My crew and I left the office pretty late and then we got stuck in the rain. Of course, no auto would take us to the theatre because it wasn't far enough for them so we hopped onto a bus- a first for me and it wasn't bad at all. It was one of those fancy Volvo buses and there was no inappropriate touching involved so I didn't have to scream. We got off the bus, got drenched a little more and then entered the icy theatre ready to catch a cold… anything for Heath Ledger. The movie is still fresh in my mind and it seems so daringly real. For two hours I sat in my seat enthralled. One really can't grasp the admiration I have for Heath Ledger's acting until you watch this film. For my friends who thought Jack Nicholson was the best Joker there ever was… Umm… there's no doubt about it now that Heath Ledger was insane in a way that Jack Nicholson never came close to approaching.
Dozens of critics and millions of audience members can't be wrong- The Dark Knight is certainly one of the greatest films made this year. Period. The film consistently surprises you and Ledger is entirely convincing in his evilness and strength.
In the movie you never see Heath Ledger as the the Joker. Never. It's hard to place the polished jaw, good-looking Aussie as the erratic villain. I was so bummed out that a guy with so much talent like him had to die but you have to agree that he did go out with a bang.
The movie makes you question the strength of humanity through the Joker. It's ugliness. The theme of choice plays a huge part and that is the most crucial test in human character. This makes the experience of watching the movie all the more worthwhile. Director Christopher Nolan has done an outstanding job in transforming the world of comics into a literary experience.
A lot of movies make you sob your heart out or laugh out like crazy; this one just makes your head burst! For those of you who haven't gotten around to watching it, well then rush to the nearest theatre and get yourself a ticket- if not for the batman then just for the terrific and the dark performance of Mister Ledger. Screw the standards of good and bad, villains and heroes. This movie makes you rethink all that.
Today, I got up late and then went with my dad to get my voters id. After that was done I joined my friends for lunch at Koshy's. Bacon, eggs and beer- Mmm…life couldn't get possibly better.
I have cookies on my table, the DVD of 'Lolita' to watch and I have a window that opens out to the little sunlight there is right now. Late last night I chatted with a very old friend and it was so nice to catch up with him after so many years. When I meet most of my old friends they never tell me that I've changed drastically. Well, because I'm of the same height and size since I was in high school and also I look much younger than my age, a trait I've had to endure for awhile now (I've come to accept that I look more girlish than womanly).
Bought a new top in my drunken state – not bad. The feeling is great. I'll have to try this sometime soon again.
Made a new friend- online. Still thinking if it was a good idea.
My friend Ash, wants to set me up on a date with a younger guy. Which is good because I'm starting to forget what dating feels like; but not so good because I don't feel like I've finished up with the old yet.
I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants- Part II. If it ever reaches our shores, that is. Anyways, I'm off to read the newspaper and busy myself with other things like, take a breath, for one.
Going to end this post with one of my favourites. A brilliant track by the Red Hot Chili Peppers called 'Road Trippin'. I must say I love it for the sprawling guitars and the vocals and whether you are or aren't a Red Hot Chili Pepper fan you'll love every second of this song, from start to end. Saying that is saying a lot.
Stay tuned for more melodrama and of course, how can we miss out- Music!
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To Pritham.
August 15, 2008
Dark Knight and - Happy Independence Day!
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Police photo of Raghunandan Yandamuri
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a suspect in the kidnapping and killing of a 10-month old girl and the slaying of her grandmother who was taking care of her in a Philadelphia suburb. According to the affadavit for his arrest, Raghunandan Yandamuri, after telling police he committed the crime, asked police to say his wife turned him so she could claim a cash reward being offered for the child's return.
The body of the baby, Saanvi Venna, was discovered overnight, police said Friday. Her grandmother Satyavathi Venna, 61, was found slain on Monday in the family's apartment in King of Prussia, about 15 miles north of Philadelphia and it was then that the baby was discovered missing.
Yandamuri, 26, an acquaintance of the family who lives in the same apartment complex, faces charges of first and second degree murder, kidnapping and burglary in what police say appears to have been a kidnapping for ransom that went awry.
Near the body of the grandmother, who died from stab wounds to her neck and chest, investigators found a ransom note demanding $50,000 for the return of Saavni, investigators revealed on Friday.
"If you want your daughter alive and safe, follow our instructions carefully," said the message, which is attached as an exhibit to the criminal complaint provided by police. It called for the baby's mother to deliver the $50,000 by 8 p.m. the same day, and warned, "Any cunning act from anyone of you will lead to your daughter's death."
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Investigators issued an Amber Alert just before 5 p.m. Monday after the child's father and slain victim's son, Venkata Konda Siva Venna, found the woman's body and realized his daughter was missing.
Police say Venna left work to check on the pair after receiving a call from a worried relative who was unable to reach them.
The baby's mother, Chenchu Latha Punuru, was at work when Venna was killed and the child was taken, police said.
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Saanvi Venna, 10 months old, in an undated photo provided by police. Police issued an Amber Alert for her on Monday after her grandmother, who had been babysitting, was found slain and the baby missing.
In the ransom note, the writer used the nicknames "Shiva" and "Lata" for Saanvi's parents, which were known only to a handful of people, all of whom were in the community of Asian Indian Americans, according to an affidavit for Yandamuri's arrest.
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One of the people who knew those names was Yandamuri, who first told detectives he had no idea who had killed Satyavathi or taken Saanvi. He had attended a vigil held for the child and helped create and distribute missing child posters of the girl, it said.
Later in the interview on Thursday, Yandamuri said he was responsible for both deaths. He said he targeted the family because he believed they had money, and said his intention was to hide the child until the ransom was paid, the affidavit said.
According to the document, he told police he had stabbed the grandmother with a kitchen knife in a tussle for the child, stuffed a handkerchief into the child's mouth to stop her from crying, and then put her in a blue suitcase, which he later abandoned in a sauna at the apartment complex gym.
Following Yandamuri's description, investigators went to the sauna, the affidavit said.
"Hidden inside a dark wooden sauna under a deep bench, they found the lifeless body of Saanvi Venna. There was apparent blood on her white dress."
The grandmother had been visiting from India since July, authorities said, and was planning to return in January.
A reward for information leading to the safe return of the child had jumped from $30,000 to $50,000 on Thursday.
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A woman was knocked unconscious and hospitalized after being punched in what's being described as a fight between A's and Giants fans outside of AT&T Park yesterday afternoon. To California and America: please cut this shit out.
The incident went down at Second and King streets, just outside of the stadium, after Oakland's 6-1 win over their cross-Bay rivals. The 30-year-old woman, who according to police was wearing an A's cap, was reportedly attempting to break up a fight between her boyfriend and two other men when she was punched by one of the suspects. She struck her head on the sidewalk, and was taken to the hospital where she is reportedly being treated for serious injuries.
According to witnesses the two suspects, described as a black male age 30 to 35, and a Latino male of approximately the same age, fled the scene in a gold Toyota Tundra. Police are seeking information, and tips can be left anonymously by calling 415-575-4444.
This incident came just a day after Bryan Stow was awarded $18 million in a lawsuit, including $4.5 million from the Dodgers. Stow, a Giants fan, was assaulted and left brain damaged by two men in the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium in 2011.
Last September, a 24-year-old Dodgers fan was stabbed to death after a Giants-Dodgers game in a street brawl sparked by the rivalry. Prosecutors declined to file charges, hinting that they believed the stabbing was self-defense.


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How should actors speak the verse in Shakespeare's plays? Are there any reliable rules for doing so? Do the forms in which the plays were first printed offer guidelines in their use of punctuation, capital letters, line division, and layout on the page? Should actors stress the ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum rhythm of the regular iambic pentameter? Do modern editors pay too much attention in the way they present the texts to the needs of readers, too little to those of actors?
These are perennial topics of debate, just as complaints that today's actors are not as good at speaking Shakespeare's verse as those of previous generations recur with predictable, often tedious frequency from one generation to another. They are relevant to the work of theatre practitioners and academics as well as to audiences. Numerous books discuss the topic in both theoretical and practical terms. Eminent directors such as Peter Hall and John Barton along with voice trainers including Cicely Berry, who has worked mostly with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Patsy Rodenburg, associated especially with the National Theatre, are known to have strong, often divergent views on the subject, and some linguistic scholars have written about it too.
Globe Education, which admirably seeks to bridge gaps and build bridges between those who put on plays and those who go to see them, is running a series of five symposia on various aspects of the speaking of Shakespeare's verse. The first took place at the Globe itself on 8 September. The others will be held over the next five months in Stratford-upon-Avon, Staunton (Virginia), New York, and Stratford (Ontario). It seems unlikely that many people will be able to attend all of them.
Both leaders of the opening session, chaired by the Globe's dynamic Director of Education Patrick Spottiswoode, have published books on the topic. Abigail Rokison, actor turned academic, wrote Shakespearean Verse Speaking: Text and Theatre Practice, which won the Shakespeare Globe Book Award in 2010. Giles Block, actor turned director and voice trainer with the title of 'Master of Words' (or Verse) at the Globe, has recently published Speaking the Speech: An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare.
Rokison spoke particularly about whether the layout on the page of shared or short lines of verse in early editions provides, as some practitioners have theorized, a set of clues to the actor as to how the lines should be delivered. She convincingly demonstrated the fallacy of supposing that early printed texts of Shakespeare's plays provide access to the author's intentions by showing that actors in early performances would have had to work not from printed texts at all, but from manuscript scrolls which would have contained only the lines they themselves had to speak prefaced by a brief cue line which would have told them nothing about the verse structure of the speeches.
The matter of what text the modern actor is working from is both crucial and contentious. Giles Block spoke disparagingly and in blanket terms of modern editions, complaining of intrusive punctuation such as a plethora of exclamation marks which suggest that editors go too far in trying to indicate how speeches should be interpreted theatrically. For him, and for some of the teachers who spoke in question time, the Folio is paramount in authority even though half of its plays had already appeared in versions closer to Shakespeare's manuscripts. But Rokison, projecting on screen a facsimile of the passage from the play of Sir Thomas More which is likely to offer us the closest we can get to the kind of manuscript from which the early quartos and some of the plays in the Folio were printed, had amply demonstrated that all printed texts of the period are likely to differ greatly in incidental features from their written sources, and so that there is no point in supposing that the punctuation, capitalization, and layout on the page of the plays' early printing give us a hot line to the author's intentions. The Folio is a mediated text just as modern editions are. It uses conventions of presentation that are of their time and so are liable to be misunderstood by readers who are not trained to understand them. It can mislead rather than help. When Charles Laughton was acting King Lear in Stratford in 1959 his wife, Elsa Lanchester, sat in the stalls with a Folio on her lap with instructions to tell him whenever a word was capitalized so that he could emphasize it. The result was not a success.
Personal taste must play its part in these matters. Giles Block appeared to seek methods of acting that stress psychological reality at the expense of artifice and rhetoric. He spoke disparagingly of actors who take long passages of verse within a single breath, going so far as to say that he found Laurence Olivier and John Wood 'ridiculous' when they did so. But to try to speak Shakespeare as if he were concerned primarily with psychological verisimilitude is to deny the range of his styles and the self conscious artifice of his writing in, especially, plays such as Love's Labour's Lost and Romeo and Juliet. And actors must be allowed their own creativity. In Twelfth Night, the lines 'I am all the daughters of my father's house, / And all the brothers too' are, apart from a reversed opening foot, regular iambic verse. But Judi Dench, by lingering slightly before saying 'brother's', most movingly took our minds back to her lost brother Sebastian. And Shakespeare himself sometimes demands to be spoken against the rules. Any actor who inflected Lear's 'Never, never, never, never, never' with an iambic beat would make a fool of himself.


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Ever since AT&T got rid of its unlimited data plan for iPhone users, dealing with data caps has become part of life for many people. Now, a new app aims to help cut down your data usage without you changing your habits.
Onavo claims to effectively double or triple your data plan by running all of your data requests through its compression servers. That way, your data will be much smaller than it would be normally. It also keeps track of how much data each app uses, so you can pinpoint what the real data hogs are. You'll notice a bit of a slowdown, since everything will be going through a new process on your way to you, but if you're worried about constantly hitting your data limit, this could be a godsend for you.
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The community reaction to the rape comments made about Lara Croft in light of the recent Tomb Raider trailers was "quite extreme" and "blown out of proportion", according to Eidos life president Ian Livingston. Oh, is that all it was? My bad, I guess.
Livingston, of course, was referring to the giant debacle caused when Tomb Raider executive producer Ron Rosenberg described a moment in the latest trailer as attempted rape, adding that Lara Croft's vulnerabilities would make gamers want to "protect" her; not exactly the wisest description given the outbreak of "sexism in video games" headlines we've seen a lot of recently.
According to Livingstone, Rosenberg's comments were a "live interview that went slightly wrong."
"Quotes were misinterpreted and blown out of proportion," he told an audience at the Game Horizon conference in Newcastle.
While the issue of rape can be explored in movies, games are held to a double standard in that the user controls the action.
"I think about my responsibility as a developer – films can deal with these themes, but it's different in games when the user controls the action," he explained. "We should be celebrating what's great about the game."
Livingston's statements echo that of Crystal Dynamics head Darrell Gallagher who also commented: "Sexual assault of any kind is categorically not a theme that we cover in this game." This was also in attempt to clarify Rosenberg's comments.
Whether or not the actions that took place in the trailer can be considered rape is a whole other story. But to say people overreacted to the situation is just ignorant. If the trailer or comments made people feel a certain way, then who is Livingston to say people "blew it out of proportion"? They reacted the way they reacted because of the actions that went down. It may have been misinterpreted, but that's still the way the general public perceived it.
With that being said, I don't agree that games can't explore the issue of rape. I'm not saying that should be the primary motivating force behind a player's action, but if we are to consider games as a form of art then why can't we explore the same themes as other mediums? You just need to think of a smarter way to approach it – and not compare Lara to a wounded animal that needs protecting. There's a difference, one that Eidos apparently still hasn't learned.


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From the period immediately following the second world war, western (orthodox) medicine – both as a philosophy of medicine and as a professional guild of medical professionals actively practicing medicine – has made progress in leaps and bounds, especially considering the advances in technology and associated enterprises. Over the last thirty years, however, the practice of orthodox medicine has taken a turn for the worst despite progressive philosophies and tenets of basic practice as offered by the professional bodies that regulate how medicine is operated and implemented. Current healthcare environments are in a chaotic state of affairs, most notably due to issues involving affordability of medical professionals. It is argued that the social-professional status of medical doctors allow exorbitant and unreachable demands on governments for increased salaries. The title-based supremacy of doctors within the occupations domain is not supported by what they are offering society at large, and it compromises the ability of medical institutions and governments to provide better and more affordable healthcare. From a sociological point of view, this paper examines the social-religious history of such social class-based occupational power and dominance, and paves the way toward an overhaul of current medical education frameworks that proactively will ensure greater occupational equity in healthcare settings, across all healthcare disciplines tasked with patient care and improvement of healthcare services. In essence, doctoral titles should only be awarded after successful completion of postgraduate doctoral studies, and a new breed of medical professionals must emerge, able to contribute more meaningfully to the advancement of medicine as a profession, as well as toward increased standards of healthcare and improved health services delivery.
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Respite at Rockbridge
The Rainbow Trout & Game Ranch has offered first-class fishing and a slower pace to generations of visitors to this village in the valley
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It's only a couple miles off Highway 95 in Ozark County, but the journey up the blacktop road to the hamlet of Rockbridge seemingly transports you back in time.
Here, old men still sit on the front porch of the general store swapping lies. Kids ride bikes and play in the stream. Little brother in tow, a teenage girl strolls down the road past the old bank. Tackle boxes and fishing rods in hand, they head to their favorite hole below the old gristmill. A neighbor picking up her mail at the post office waves and says hello.
Since 1954, the Amyx family has preserved a slower pace at Rockbridge and the Rainbow Trout & Game Ranch that occupies it. Though the rest of world may be in a hurry, generations of families have retreated to this quaint village in the valley seeking respite.
"There are no distractions here," says Ray Amyx, whose parents Lile and Edith, along with his uncle Clay, created the trout fishing resort, which is served by White River Valley Electric Cooperative. "There's no TV, no cell phones. It's a place to kick back and relax."
Indeed, this picturesque getaway in the Ozark hills not only offers hard-fighting rainbow trout, but it also allows families the opportunity to be families.
"The kids tell me that at home, their moms and dads are going every direction. Dad's on this shift, Mom's on this shift, kids have these things going. Nobody ever sits together, eats together," says Sandy Amyx, who moved to Rockbridge in 1969 and has spent the past 25 years as postmaster. "At Rockbridge, they play games together, they eat together, they fish together. They do it all together."
Long before the trout ranch opened, Rockbridge was a destination for families. Originally located at the confluence of Spring and Bryant creeks, the mill town flourished as the first county seat of Ozark County, serving people within a 75-mile radius.
However, Rockbridge lost its status as county seat to Gainesville in 1857, and the village quickly declined. By the Civil War, only a few buildings remained, which guerrilla bands burned.
Following the war, a new mill was built at its current location, along with a general store, bank, church, school and blacksmith shop. Rockbridge once again became a gathering place.
It was during this era that the Amyx family first moved to Rockbridge. Ray's grandparents, Sidney and Edgie Amyx, married in the village in 1895 and began homesteading the land above Rockbridge Spring.
The town remained a bustling community until the 1930s when gasoline and diesel engines made water power obsolete. By 1940, Rockbridge was essentially a ghost town; only the general store and post office survived.
In 1946, the Amyx son, Lile, returned to Rockbridge with his wife, Edith. They opened the Rainbow Trout Ranch in 1954, which today stocks 50,000 to 80,000 rainbow trout a year along a two-mile stretch of Spring Creek.
"We have great fighting fish. I attribute most of that to the water," says Alicia Amyx, Ray and Sandy's daughter. "We have clean, fresh spring water, totally uncontaminated. It's a wonderful habitat for trout, and that's what makes them taste so good."
Each day, 15 to 18 million gallons of water flow from the main spring, spilling over the dam at the gristmill. The falling action helps oxygenate the 56- to 58-degree water, making it ideal for trout. Another 2 to 3 million gallons of water flow daily from Rockbridge Spring farther down the creek.
Trout fishing at Rockbridge doesn't require a state-issued fishing license or a trout stamp. Visitors instead purchase a permit from the ranch, then they pay a per-pound fee for the fish they catch.
"The state hatcheries do a wonderful job, but they want to sell you a chance to catch a fish," Ray says. "Here, we want to sell you fish."
Currently, the standard fishing permit is $25 per angler per day, and the trout costs $4.20 per pound live weight. Cleaning, packaging and freezing your catch is included in the fee.
The rainbows stocked in Spring Creek each day are not run-of-the-mill pan-sized trout. These feisty fish have an average weight of 2.5 pounds each, a size that practically qualifies every trout as a lunker.
"We call this catching fish, not fishing," says Steve Jones of Chesterfield, who fishes often at trout parks in Missouri. "I think the biggest I've ever caught at Maramec Spring Park is 4.5 pounds. Last year at Rockbridge, I had one a little over 7 pounds, and yesterday I caught one that was 5.5 pounds.
"Where else are you going to catch fish this big? For most people, these are once-in-a-lifetime fish. You can come to Rockbridge and catch 10 of them."
Fly-fishing is the most popular method of catching trout at Rockbridge, though spin casting is just as effective. Ray says that on more than one occasion, he's watched as a youngster with a Snoopy pole has hauled in a 10-pound trout.
"He's usually standing next to a guy fishing with a couple thousand dollars worth of the best Orvis gear," he laughs. "You should see the look on his face when that kid lands that fish."
The ranch does offer a catch-and-release permit if that is your preference. Or, if you've never been fly-fishing, you can book a day with one of Rockbridge's guides and learn the basics.
Fishing may be the first pursuit of those who visit Rockbridge, but the ranch offers activities away from the water. Enjoy a horseback ride or a hike on the ranch's trails. Or, test your shooting skills on the ranch's sporting clays or five-stand courses.
You can fish for just a day at Rockbridge, but if you prefer to stay overnight, the ranch offers a variety of accommodations, from motel-style rooms to entire houses. Ralph's Ridge Condos — which are built on the site of the original Amyx homestead — are the latest addition for a luxurious getaway. Named for Ray's uncle, they feature three bedrooms with private baths, as well as a full kitchen, great room with stone fireplace, plasma TV and laundry.
The resort's restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, including many fresh trout entrées. Rockbridge also markets smoked trout fillets.
After spending a day hip-deep in Spring Creek, many guests relax in the Grist Mill Club, a pub inside the original mill. Here, you can enjoy your favorite beverage while watching others fish.
As a fourth generation of the Amyx family now welcomes visitors to Rockbridge — Alicia's 15-year-old daughter Darian works in the restaurant — the resort tries to change appropriately to please customers without allowing them to see the change.
"We try to add the small touches, but we very much hope that it stays the same," says Alicia, noting in the past few years, they have added satellite TV in the conference room (but not in guest rooms), as well as wireless Internet for checking e-mail.
For many families, a trip to Rockbridge is a tradition that reaches back for decades. Tom May of St. Charles has been visiting Rockbridge since the 1960s. He says four generations of his family have fished the waters of Spring Creek.
"Just settling into this environment — the stream, the atmosphere, the people that run the operation — that's why we come back year after year," he says. "I have a picture of Alicia in her playpen way back when. They're like family."
Joe Glik of St. Louis agrees. "It's a unique place. They have great food and nice lodging. And this is about as pretty a spot as you'll find anywhere."
Learn more about the Rainbow Trout & Game Ranch online at www.rockbridgemo.com or call 417-679-3619.